LEGO Harry Potter returns with 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall [News]

Welcome back to the wizarding world of LEGO Harry Potter. Seventeen years since the first wave of magical sets hit shelves, LEGO announced today that an entirely new line of sets based on the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film series will launch August 1st, 2018.

The first set in the re-launched LEGO Harry Potter theme will be 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall with 878 pieces and 10 minifigures, available August 1st for $99.99 USD.

The set, loosely based on the first two Harry Potter movies (Sorcerer’s/Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets), includes ten minifigures with all-new printing and several new molds. The students, now sporting shorter legs and new magic wands, include Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger (with new bushy hair), Draco Malfoy, and for the first time, Susan Bones.

The minifigures of professors, staff, and creatures at Hogwarts include Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Quirrell (with reversible Lord Voldemort face), a significantly updated Hagrid holding a new lantern and pink umbrella, and ghostly Nearly Headless Nick (another first for the theme).

Additionally, the set comes with a Hedwig owl figure, new printed rat figure representing Scabbers, as well as a buildable Basilisk snake and Fawkes the phoenix.

The interior of the Great Hall includes an incredible amount of detail, including four new floating candle pieces, a large amount of new 2×2 lattice window panes, and a brand new molded Sorting Hat. The set also features two reversible house banners, a roaring fireplace, the house cup, a moving staircase, and a reversible Mirror of Erised.

On the exterior of the set, gone are the sand green towers used in the last five iterations of Hogwarts, replaced with striking dark grey which more closely resembles the film version of the magical castle. The tower measures 14 inches tall and is topped with two newly colored sand green ski poles, likely paying homage to its brick-built architectural forbearers.

Additionally, twelve new 1×1 centered triangle pieces in tan decorate the main roof, a new piece sure to come in handy in many other applications. With the standard cheese slopes on the tower and pyramid pieces adorning the exterior walls, this set is quite the 1×1 tan slope extravaganza. Other details include newly colored spires, blades and unicorn horns, new leaf pieces, several microfigures representing statues, and a few stickers to add more character to the tan walls.

Interestingly, the sides of the Great Hall include Technic pin holes, where it appears that additional sets could be more easily connected than the confusing and sprawling maze of disjointed Hogwarts sets from previous Harry Potter waves. These additional sets will likely be revealed soon. One thing is for certain: We will also be getting LEGO Harry Potter BrickHeadz characters, confirmed by LEGO as well.

LEGO Harry Potter has certainly come a long way the past seventeen years from yellow minifigure faces to several LEGO Dimensions sets. But we are extremely excited to return to the new and improved wizarding world this summer and relive the magic of Harry Potter by building it with LEGO bricks.

The full press release from LEGO is included below. Product description and article have been updated with the latest information provided by LEGO. The Brothers Brick will bring you close-up photos of this set and more from the New York Toy Fair this weekend, so stay tuned.

The Great Hall features tables, head table with seats, fireplace, 2 reversible house banners and 4 ‘floating’ candles, food (turkey leg, ice cream and a small cake) brooms, trophy cup and a teapot

The 4-level tower features movable Grand Staircase spiral steps at its base, potions room, treasure room with chest and a turret featuring the Mirror of Erised with changeable pictures and roosting spot for Fawkes.

Also includes a boat with hanging lantern.

Place the pupils in the boat and sail to Hogwarts Castle.

Help Hermione and Susan create magical potions.

Feast in the Great Hall, then use the sorting hat to select the pupils’ houses!

Welcome the new students with Hagrid, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

Use the magic wands to pitch Harry against Draco in the Dueling Club!

Swoop Fawkes into battle and help Harry battle the giant Basilisk serpent.

It’s still listed at Bricklink, so there’s a possibility this set will be connected to the D2C set. (I guess that could also mean there’ll be quite a few minifig doublets for the people buying all sets in the series…)

New lantern, new candle, new candle flame, new wand, new sorting hat, new Scabbers, new Harry hair, new Hermione hair, maybe a new mood for Hagrid (and Penguin’s umbrella in pink), and the first ever Hufflepuff minifig. So now they really need to release any Ravenclaw minifig in a matching house uniform (Luna Lovegood is the sole Ravenclaw student, and she was dressed in pink).

@mttbsstt:
The fact that they’re wearing house colors kinda pegs it to the beginning of the movie series, since _everybody_ looked like they had on boarding school uniforms in the first movie, and _everybody_ was wearing regular street clothes by Year 3. Ginny does start at Hogwarts in Year 2, and I believe they’re still wearing the house uniforms during that film…maybe? So, you have a valid point (it certainly looks like her hairstyle). But take her out of the mix altogether, and it feels distinctly like a Year 1 set. Quirrel only appears in the first film. Harry and Ron arrived by flying car in Year 2, so the rowboat indicates Year 1. All of the other students in this set started the same year as Harry, and I think Nearly Headless Nick (John Cleese’ first minifig?) was more Year 1 as well.
But the clincher is, if you zoom in, Harry/Ron/Hermione are all sporting red ties, Draco’s is green, and the fifth student has on a yellow tie. Hufflepuff, for sure.
Also, I think they might have given Dumbledore a new hairstyle, too.

Agree with the last point about, there is still lots of interest in all things HP and with the next installment of Fantastic beasts out at the end of the year at the cinema,i suggest there’s bound to be even more!! Back to the new Lego sets, i hear there will be a whomping willow set to go with this…

I am at least confident in a few years of HP sets, because in my opinion they will continue to release them as long as the Fantastic Beasts movies are in production, like how Lord of the Rings sets were produced to coincide with the Hobbit films, and ended when hey were done. here is to hoping we get lots of HP sets!